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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: October 2022

Here are hours upon hours of brilliant new music we've covered here at tQ over the last month, compiled into one handy playlist!

Merzbow

Merzbient

Knack For An Earworm: Ford & Lopatin Live

Ford & Lopatin head to the Shacklewell Arms in East London, where Charlie Frame sees the formerly-known-as-Games duo deliver a fantastic set of electronic pop. Photo thanks to Nickie Divine

Songs Not Learned Or Sung: Echo And The Bunnymen Bomb In Glasgow

Our man in Glasgow Neil Cooper was looking forward to Ocean Rain live on Wednesday night. What he got was a very public meltdown from Ian McCulloch

WATCH: Live The Fall Karaoke With tQ Next Friday

Join tQ and The Fallen Women, our The Fall covers band, to become their Mark E. Smith live at The Lexington

Blur To Play Olympic Gig

Closing ceremony bash

Threadfest: Richard Dawson, Circle & More

Sir Richard Bishop, Vision Fortune, tQ's John Doran and many, many more join line-up for May Bank Holiday three-dayer

The Month In Electronic Music: Jam City, 2562, Sigha & More

The sequel to last week's scuzzier edition of Hyperspecific takes a trip through some new and upcoming club-friendly records, care of Middle Eastern samplescapes, badly named jazz ensembles and day-glo digital detritus. Rory Gibb leads the way

The Junipers

Paint The Ground

Our Food Writer Sam Connects Glastonbury, Coldplay & Italian Cuisine

In this months' column, our food writer Sam Herlihy joins the dots between the Glastonbury Festival, Chris Martin as Incredible Hulk, and rural Italian cuisine

The Quietus At The Museum Of London

The Quietus is thrilled to be a part of The Festival Of Radical Fun at the Museum Of London, where we'll be bringing The Fallen Women and a John Doran DJ set

A Giant Dub Machine: An Interview With Sendai

Ahead of their performance at Berlin Atonal this week, Albert Freeman catches up with Peter Van Hoesen and Yves De Mey, to discuss the exploratory impulses that feed into the jagged techno landscapes of their collaborative project Sendai

Cardi B

Invasion Of Privacy

Funny, caustic, vulnerable and sharp: a debut that matches the hype

The Love Hangover: Simple Minds’ New Gold Dream Revisited

40 years on, Richard Foster revisits Simple Minds' classic New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) and finds an album full of dreamlike shifts in time, other worlds and disorientation

Lou Reed Has Life-Saving Liver Transplant

Reed's wife Laurie Anderson: "He was dying"